Portmanteau of transfer + resistor, coined at Bell Labs in 1948 for the semiconductor device that launched the digital age.
A semiconductor device that amplifies or switches electronic signals, the fundamental building block of modern electronics.
A portmanteau of 'transfer' + 'resistor,' coined by John R. Pierce of Bell Labs. The device transfers an electrical signal across a resistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invented the point-contact transistor at Bell Labs in December 1947 and shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Key